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How to check if Tor is working and debug the problem on CLI?
You can use curl to check https://check.torproject.org/api/ip over tor:
curl -x socks5h://localhost:9050 -s https://check.torproject.org/api/ip
Note the h in socks5h. This will ensure dns resolution ...
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How to channel all traffic on Kali linux through Tor?
Short answer:
Download Tails.
Long answer that more properly answers your qustion and use case:
Once Tor is installed (I'll leave that to you; I recommend using the official Tor repos for Debian), ...
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How to use Tor with Google Chrome?
From the Arch Linux Wiki:
chromium --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * 0.0.0.0 , EXCLUDE myproxy"
However as the wiki explicitly warns: this will be used for ...
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Where is the tor log file
By default stdout and stderr of a systemd unit are sent to syslog. On my machine(Kali distro) it is stored in /var/log/syslog. So to see tor unit output run
cat /var/log/syslog | grep tor -i
Or to ...
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usewithtor: command not found
usewithtor is deprecated, you want to use torsocks in it's place.
Previously there were various incarnations, the commands were kept for backwards compatibility but torsocks is what torify/usewithtor ...
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Where is the tor log file
Usually Tor stores its log files in /var/log/tor. Depending from the specific settings you'll find /var/log/tor/notices.log, /var/log/tor/log, /var/log/tor/info.log, etc.
The option Log in torrc ...
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How do I set up a Tor relay as a docker container?
Foreword
Docker defines a container as a "A standardized unit of software" [1] and does in a nutshell provide the tooling needed to create self-contained containers - think of little neatly-wrapped ...
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Qestion about Linux Tails persistent volume
It is really simple.
Move file to be uploaded to
~/Tor Browser
PersistentDir/Tor Browser
These are the folders you can upload from or download to.
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About Vidalia not working/discontinued
Vidalia has been discontinued for a long time now because it has not been maintained to keep up with changes in tor. At present there is no officially recommended alternative, though I have heard some ...
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Can I comment on youtube videos
Took a while, but finally made it work:
Open the menu of the onion icon and click "Preferences...". In the window that opens select the "Security settings" tab. Uncheck "Don't record browsing history ....
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Use Tor browser as non-root Linux
You can run any command as a different user using sudo:
sudo -u my_user tor-browser-en
If you need to use multiple commands you can do this:
sudo -u my_user sh -c "first && second"
If you ...
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How to use tor with a program in shell?
From the README:
The getxbook program downloads books anonymously. Using it will still
result in your IP address being logged (use
torify to stop this)...
torify is tool that attempts to wrap ...
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Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems?
What we can do to protect ourselves as VPN/Tor users?
Note that the attack itself is targeted at the service, not the client (I.E. tor relay, not the tor client) so there isn't much you can do. If ...
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How can Wget be configured to work with Torify securely?
Personally, I think the wiki stuff is outdated and needs some kinda purge with fire.
Here's how Tails does it:
#!/bin/sh
unset http_proxy
unset HTTP_PROXY
unset https_proxy
unset HTTPS_PROXY
exec ...
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I want upload a file to a ftp server using Tor proxy to comunicate with a Hidden Service [Python 3]
The tl;dr is that FTP and .onion do not go well together and never will, due to how the FTP protocol works. For more details, see below.
FTP goes a little like this:
Client connects to the "command" ...
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Cannot persist NoScript settings on TorBrowser 8
This is a known issue: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27175
Looks like the fix will be released very soon with the next update.
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Vidalia fails to start
This bug has been confirmed. Some workarounds have been communicated, but no final solution / bugfix.
See launchpad: Bug #680192 “Vidalia was unable to start Tor. Check your setting...” and try to ...
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How does one execute JavaScript using Tor network without human interaction?
I found a way to do that on linux:
apt-get install tor
download Multi-TOR from here: https://github.com/jseidl/Multi-TOR
run ./multi-tor.sh 10 for 10 socks ports (for example)
You can use selenium or ...
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Errors when starting Tor browser on Linux
As per this suggestion
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/why-apt-get-comes-with-error-on-this-802849/
I ran
ifconfig lo up
and everything worked. I have zero clue what this does, ...
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Using Tor for the whole system on fedora
Yes you can route all data through Tor, but is a Bad Idea.
Instead try Tails a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at ...
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How to block all non-tor network traffic on GNU/Linux?
You are right, this can be achieved by using iptables. This is described in Tor documentation. So, as a root, type:
iptables -F OUTPUT
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -m owner --uid-owner debian-tor
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When using custom keys, what permissions do "/var/lib/tor/hidden_service/" need?
I don't know if it is strictly necessary, for me it works with these permissions:
700 (or drwx------) for the folder (folder2 in your case)
600 (or -rw-------) for the private_key file.
Both owned ...
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Post install questions
If you've installed tor as a system service through OpenSUSE's package manager:
You can define where tor logs to through use of Log directives in the torrc file, located by default in /etc/tor/torrc.
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How to start tor on boot in Raspian Jessie?
You can make Tor start on boot by running (as root):
update-rc.d tor enable
Because you compiled Tor from source, you may not have the files to automatically start Tor at boot. If it says some file ...
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How to start tor on boot in Raspian Jessie?
The best way is to use a three components:
/etc/rc.local - It's a script that is executed on boot. I'm using it to start the components I need - see how downstrings.
A daemontools package - it's ...
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Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems?
Tor developer Isis Agora Lovecruft has published a blog post on this.
CVE-2016-5696 and its effects on Tor
tl;dr: This vulnerability is quite serious, but it doesn’t affect the Tor network any ...
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